Ornith-1.5 models invent their own tasks to self-improve
Ornith.ai just launched Ornith-1.5, a family of open models built around a self-improvement loop where the AI proposes its own training tasks, builds scaffolds, and learns via reinforcement learning. The flagship 397B version matches Claude Opus 4.8 on key coding benchmarks, while the compact 9B variant can run on smartphones.